This visualization of Doctor Who villains since 1963 will tell you:
Links (& blurbs about them)
This visualization of Doctor Who villains since 1963 will tell you:
Interesting interview with the economist Dan Ariely on why online dating is so unsatisfying:
Online dating is becoming the poster child for a class of problems that software / the web is really, really bad at solving.
Bruno Maag doesn’t pull his punches in this interview about Aktiv, his Helvetica-killer:
…Max Miedinger [Helvetica’s designer] didn’t have a clue about type design. He was the salesman at [foundry] Haas’sche Schriftgießerei for Christ’s sake.
Ouch.
Eric Joyner paints retro-looking toy robots and donuts exclusively, like Too Many Choices II from 2008:
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists. And if UFOs are actually ball lightning, then does the X-Files ultimately owe its popularity to lightning storms?
In a fascinating bit of amateur lexical analysis, Stephen Von Worley created this color strata image, using data collected from XKCD‘s Color Survey:
Sadly, pistachio, a hue that’s notoriously difficult to pin down, is nowhere to be found. Spencer Finch will be disappointed.
If anyone’s interested in the actual linguistics behind color names, Berlin & Kay’s Basic Color Terms (Amazon link) is the seminal work, although I’m pretty sure they didn’t discover color names like baige [sic], puke, or butter yellow.
This infographic of one person’s sleep patterns over nine years is fascinating: